Feed a Kid Saturday (1st Event at our Office)
When schools shut, Saturdays became louder. The children did not vanish; they multiplied — from about 200 to nearly 300 at Feed a Kid Saturday once we settled into our office space.
The first Saturday at the new office felt like moving house in public — chairs scraped, volunteers called names twice, someone’s shoe got stuck in the mud at the door. By the second week, the lane already knew our rhythm.
Three hundred children is not a round number; it is three hundred mouths, three hundred stories, three hundred chances for a quarrel in a queue — which is why monitoring matters as much as menus.
More children means more than bigger pots. It means life-skills talks that keep pace with curiosity, careful monitoring so no one slips through unseen, and non-food basics — soap, a sweater when June cold bites, a notebook when school returns.
What humbles us is how children map us. Even when we shift location, they do not scatter. They stay within earshot of the ETCO door, as if proximity is its own safety.
Why we keep showing up
That loyalty is not sentimental; it is need. A Saturday plate can steady a week that starts thin. We are reaching out to facilitators, partners, and sponsors who can walk beside us as numbers climb — not as saviours, but as neighbours who understand Kibera’s maths.
If your organisation trains mentors, if your church can spare a morning, if you can donate sacks of maize — we will put it to work where the queue is already forming.
Supporters who give in kind, in cash, or by sending a friend to see the work — you widen the circle. We are not scaling vanity; we are scaling plates, and every extra plate arrives with a child who already believes we will open the door.
Project Site Visit by Rotary Club of IPSWICH (USA) and Kikuyu (Kenya)
It was a great and engaging day of partnership and learning as we hosted the International Rotary Club of IPSWICH team, led by Environmental Lawyer Chris and his wife, Jane, Former President of Rotary Club of Kikuyu Hon. George Ngotho and Rotarian Yumbya for a visit to our project implementation sites. The visit provided an opportunity to review the project areas on the ground, discuss implementation priorities, and strengthen our shared commitment to sustainable environmental and community development. We also had the opportunity to visit the Nairobi Rivers Commission (NRC), where we were hosted by Commissioner Dr. Loice Kipkorir, a member of the Ngong River Committee. We explored opportunities to strengthen collaboration and align our work with the Nairobi Rivers Commission's Restoration Framework.
Community Capacity Building Training
We are currently participating in the ongoing PROVE (Public Space Governance Research, Observation, Validation and Experimentation) Pilot Programme, a four-month initiative by Public Space Networks (PSN) bringing together 11 community groups from Kamukunji and Korogocho. The programme focuses on strengthening community organizations’ capacity to manage, protect and improve public spaces as well as restoring rivers and it's ecosystems. The ongoing capacity-building training is helping CBOs and community organizations better understand the connection between public spaces, river restoration and ecosystem conservation, while exploring practical approaches and stronger collaboration among communities, government agencies, development partners and other stakeholders.
High Level NRC & Development Partners Meeting
Representing the Ngong River Regeneration Network, I'm having the privilege of attending a high-level breakfast meeting convened by the Nairobi Rivers Commission (NRC) in collaboration with the Kenya Permanent Mission to UN-Habitat. The meeting has brought together Development Partners, Government Agencies, Private Sector representatives, and Community representatives to deliberate on the restoration and sustainable management of Nairobi’s rivers.